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Living Room / Re: Google does no evil; kills reMail
« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2010, 09:57 AM »
;D  nice use of sarcasm there  :Thmbsup:
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I hope anon will keep on banging the DRM servers :)

There's apparently a new attack going on...
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Living Room / Re: Google does no evil; kills reMail
« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2010, 07:28 AM »
That's probably the reason they hired the developers?  And they didn't kill it- they open sourced it.
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UbiSoft lied about the reason for DRM Servers being down...
http://bit.ly/aKEbCg

This gets better and better...
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Living Room / Re: Pirate vs. Paying Customer illustrated
« Last post by wraith808 on March 08, 2010, 12:02 PM »
UbiSoft lied about DRM Servers - http://bit.ly/aKEbCg
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Living Room / Re: Pirate vs. Paying Customer illustrated
« Last post by wraith808 on March 07, 2010, 10:32 PM »
Classic!  Ubisoft's DRM servers went down- making AC2 unplayable for many *paying* customers!

http://bit.ly/bNSXE5
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Living Room / Re: Google does no evil; kills reMail
« Last post by wraith808 on March 07, 2010, 10:22 AM »
Google does no evil: Open Sources reMail  :P

http://bit.ly/b3yUgH
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Living Room / Re: Da Vinci is my hero (or villain as the case may be)
« Last post by wraith808 on March 07, 2010, 09:57 AM »
Now *that* is power! :)
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Living Room / Da Vinci is my hero (or villain as the case may be)
« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2010, 09:20 AM »
9 Inventions that Prove Leonardo da Vinci Was a Supervillain

http://bit.ly/cdK1So
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This weekend's deal: score the king of the fighters,  Street Fighter IV, for 50% off, from  2:00 A.M. PST on Friday, March 5 until 5:00 P.M. PST on Monday, March 8. It's the latest installment in one of the greatest franchises of all time, and you can pick it up at a great price, so act now!

http://bit.ly/dx376T
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Living Room / Re: Stephen's Weekly Tech News - Edition 3
« Last post by wraith808 on March 05, 2010, 10:23 AM »
RE: The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work

Ubisoft's notorious "uncrackable" unfair game DRM falls in less than 24h
http://www.boingboin...fts-notorious-u.html
 :-\

Well, I personally agree with Tycho over at PA... nobody wins on this one, and it just leans towards the death of PC gaming. :(  I don't see why they don't just see that it's not pirate or purchase.  Most pirates wouldn't have purchased anyway, and most purchasers are going to purchase anyway.  The only way this changes is if the publisher's contract with the purchaser is unreasonable (i.e. publish crap, and I'm not going to pay, make me inconvenienced and I'm not going to pay, make a crappy port and I'm not going to pay, etc).  But for some reason this is beyond some publishers.  I wonder what their response is going to be.

EDIT: Didn't have to wait too long: http://kotaku.com/54...ks-drm-piracy-claims
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Developer's Corner / Re: Using Cloud Database in a Desktop application
« Last post by wraith808 on March 05, 2010, 08:18 AM »
There are many hosts that offer MS SQL Server as a database option- many of them are configured so that the DBMS cannot talk to the outside world, but only to local host.  The reason for this is that in the case that there's a vulnerability in SQL Server, the bad guys still can't get to it.  But even in those cases, as long as you have a non-shared solution, they will configure it as you ask- but IMO this is a bad decision.  The better way architecturally to do this IME is to have a webservice that talks to the DBMS, and access the web service from your application.
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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 04, 2010, 12:17 PM »
I just can't stand having to send out that canned response + threat to people I know and generally like.

Oooh... maybe you should post it if it's so effective so that we can use it?
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Living Room / Re: Antivirus companies support virus writers?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 04, 2010, 09:04 AM »
"Drive-by" a really cute buzzword loved by paranoid people since it means WHATEVER amount of common sense you have, you can still be screwed! = BUY a sucurity package, you MUST. Almost entirely BS...

Scary in it's coincidence, but I almost got screwed by a drive-by this morning.  AVG saved me from it... so I don't know about that BS claim.  It was my first time running afoul of a virus in a long time, and I hate to think what would have happened had I browsed to the site on my desktop that doesn't have AV software installed...
Use firefox, keep it up to date, its usually fixed for exploits sooner than any use of exploit appears in the wild (which is also sooner than antivirus responds). Geez.


I *am* using firefox, and it *is* up to date, and my OS is patched for every known exploit that I know of.  I think that's an assumption fail.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Programmers Challenged, Gauntlet Thrown
« Last post by wraith808 on March 03, 2010, 06:22 PM »
But... it's too late. :(  We were supposed to start on the 1st...
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Living Room / Re: Online RPG Players.
« Last post by wraith808 on March 03, 2010, 12:55 PM »
I've played too many of them at one time or another, but I have a lifetime subscription to Lord of the Rings Online (Silverlode server) and Champions Online.  I putter around in EQ2 (Everfrost and Befallen Servers) from time to time, and I've been playing Star Trek Online.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Mint.com vs Wesabe.com vs buxfer.com
« Last post by wraith808 on March 03, 2010, 12:53 PM »
I use quicken because I've been handling financial business with them for a while now.  I'd probably trust an offering from fidelity also.  But I have a real problem with trusting new companies- even if they aren't fly by night companies.
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I wonder why they closed.  It seemed like a good deal- sort of like tanga, woot, etc- in that they purchase in bulk and sell for less.
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ASP.NET / Re: Simple form using visual web developer
« Last post by wraith808 on March 02, 2010, 08:38 AM »
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/aspnet3/ - $44.95
http://www.sitepoint...om/books/aspnetant1/ - $39.99

Those are the only two asp.net books I saw for sale on the site.  HTH
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Living Room / Re: Stephen's Weekly Tech News - Edition 3
« Last post by wraith808 on March 01, 2010, 11:30 AM »
You put that together on a smartphone?!?  All the more impressive!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tabbles on BDJ on Wednesday
« Last post by wraith808 on February 27, 2010, 01:19 AM »
I'm not sure.  Actually, I'm not even sure how extensive the changes are- I looked at the site and the descriptions, and they seemed like a good direction, even in the licensing.  And the price was a lot better this time and I'm a software addict so...

But I'll take a look at it and post my findings here as soon as I get a chance.  Unfortunately, it probably won't be today as it's my wife's birthday.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tabbles on BDJ on Wednesday
« Last post by wraith808 on February 27, 2010, 12:33 AM »
No problem!  I actually purchased it on Bits this time- it seems to have improved a lot from comments from the users, and changed paradigms a bit.  I'll update the review with my new findings as soon as I get a chance.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Pascal - Lazarus?
« Last post by wraith808 on February 26, 2010, 10:00 PM »
VS always installs butt load of stuff on my computer, I can almost call it bloatware.
It's a pretty big and fully-featured IDE - wouldn't call it bloatware, though. Don't install functionality you don't need :)

Custom install is your friend :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Stupid phrases like "Free trial!"
« Last post by wraith808 on February 26, 2010, 01:00 PM »
It really happens.  My wife picked up malware that did that at myspace.  I was thankfully able to get rid of it with a combination of system restore and the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

... and kept the wife, I assume :-)

Of course :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Stupid phrases like "Free trial!"
« Last post by wraith808 on February 26, 2010, 12:20 PM »
It really happens.  My wife picked up malware that did that at myspace.  I was thankfully able to get rid of it with a combination of system restore and the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
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